The artist formerly known as Kanye West has teased a new song in which he recalls giving his cousin “head” when they were children.
In a tweet posted on Monday, April 21, Ye shared a snippet of the new song and explained the genesis behind it. “This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that’s locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn’t ‘look at dirty magazines together’ anymore,” he wrote. “Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw.”
He then suggested that he and his cousin engaged in sexual activity after finding dirty magazines. “My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different,” he wrote. “My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins dick till I was 14. Tweet sent.”
In the snippet, Ye sings and raps with a distorted filter over his voice. “We seen two n***as kissing, we ain’t know what that shit mean,” he raps. “Then we start reenacting everything that we had seen / That’s when I gave my cousin head … I told my cousin not tell nobody / Please don’t make me take it to my grave / The truth will set you free someday / I don’t think they understand, that I’m not attracted to a man.” In the rest of the snippet, he raps about his alleged nitrous use and his relationships with women.
This assumedly isn’t the same cousin who stole his laptop, as he detailed on his 2016 track “Real Friends.” While not much is known about his incarcerated cousin, Ye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian has mentioned him in the past and confirmed his crime.
He also recently opened up about his childhood in a series of confessional tweets shared earlier this month. “When I was growing up my parents beat me,” he tweeted. “Like when I deserved it…Not in abusive way…I guess. … I’d be like, ‘Mom, I’m really upset. I didn’t get the starter hat to go with the jacket you just bought me, ‘and then I got backhanded out the blue…Just seems like that wouldn’t be woke.”
